Moesa District

Former administrative district of Switzerland

District in Switzerland

Moesa scenery

Moesa District, often referred to as Moesano, is a former administrative district in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It had an official language of Italian, a population of 8,125 in 2015, and an area of 473.74 km² (182.91 sq mi), corresponding to the Mesolcina valley along the eponymous Moesa River.

On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Arvigo, Braggio, Selma and Cauco merged to form the new municipality of Calanca.^[1]

The Moesa District was replaced with the Moesa Region on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the canton.^[2]

Municipalities

It consisted of three Kreise (circles) and fourteen municipalities:

Languages

The official language of Moesa is Italian, traditionally the Western Lombard dialect spoken by the native population.

References

1. Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German) accessed 2 January 2013
2. Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz - Mutationsmeldungen 2016 accessed 16 February 2017
3. "Ständige und nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, Geburtsort und Staatsangehörigkeit". bfs.admin.ch (in German). Swiss Federal Statistical Office - STAT-TAB. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.

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